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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yay! My nephew Damien has reached the Edinburgh Castle finish line. He's run / walked the 100 miles in 43.5 hours. So impressed!

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Nephew Damien has passed the 99 mile mark!

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Can't go to bed as my nephew and his pal are doing a 100 mile Rat Run, they're just 4 miles from the finish. Set off from Bamburgh 7am Sat. I can't stop checking the live tracker! Go Damien! www.justgiving.com/page/damien-...

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Damien & Leroy’s fundraiser for Children with Cancer UK

Help Damien Welsh raise money to support Children with Cancer UK

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Once again, the PM and the Home Secretary should be asked to say out loud and specifically that they believe this is the law - their new law - working as they intend it to. That they consider all these people terrorist sympathisers.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/07/2025

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Congratulations to The Silver Plate, winner of the prestigious Craft Guild College Restaurant of the Year - again! sheffcol.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

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News | The Silver Plate restaurant wins top award at industry ‘Oscars’ for the second year in a row || The Sheffield College

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

On the 9th anniversary of the day after the Brexit vote, here’s @mjrobbins.com to cheer us all up. Not. Well worth reading in full nonetheless! open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

Screenshot from linked article reads:

“The public could not give a crap about left versus right, about abstract political debates, about which minister is going to lose their job in the next reshuffle. There has been an absolute massive failure across politics - among the politicians themselves and the circus that covers them - to grasp and talk about the issues that matter to ordinary people in a serious way. To do the very basics of delivery. HS2 has become the ur-example of this national festival of incompetence.

Britain isn't building, isn't executing, and unless we can change this we will become a poorer country, our children will grow up poorer still, jobs and investment will dry up, resentment and anger will grow, and the 2030s will be a dark, dark time of rage and populism'. This is the most important issue in British politics right now, and if you still don't understand that with Reform nudging 30% in the polls, public services failing and the national mood grimmer than it's been for a generation, then I honestly don't know what to tell you.”

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A bit late to the party - #tombtuesday. Pillars forming the facade of Cairnholy 1, one or two chambered cairns near Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. Built in the 4th millennium BC.

Stone pillars forming the facade of a chambered cairn.

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Bob @bobrmitchell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty Why the hell won’t Starmer nationalise Thames water, because the sort of incentives being offered to private investors to prop Thames up must be staggering! There’s a reason no other countries have a privatised industry! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty

The company has been fined for breaching rules over wastewater operations and dividend payments.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Had a wonderful time at #rhschelsea last Tuesday. Loved the naturalistic planting everywhere. Lots of sweet rocket, foxgloves, angelica, cow parsley.

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If you're off into the hills then always carry the following: A map. A compass. A basic first aid kit and survival bag or blanket. A whistle. Mountain rescue teams are all selfless volunteers. They're there for genuine emergencies, not a safety net for idiocy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris

The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so often, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

For #standingstonesunday - the Rudston Monolith. Over 25 feet, gritstone, tallest monolith in the UK. It's in Rudston churchyard near Bridlington Yorkshire (we're staying nearby). Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age.

26 ft high standing stone in front of Rudston church, Yorkshire UK.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Well worth reading the whole document.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Have you ever fancied seeing what it’s like to sing with Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus? Join us for a day’s workshop singing beautiful English anthems on 24 May at the Upper Chapel in Sheffield wegottickets.com/sheffieldphil

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WeGotTickets

Buy tickets for music, comedy, theatre, film, festivals and much more - with the best service in UK ticketing

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 08/04/2025

"It is not just lunacy. It is wicked." Martin Wolf on how Trump's tariffs will damage the world: www.ft.com/content/d96d...

The debate over whether to take Trump literally or seriously is over. He has now learnt how to be the tyrant he always wished to be. That took a while. But, with the help he has received, he is there. His administration is engaged in a comprehensive assault on the American republic and the global order it created. Under attack domestically are the state, the rule of law, the role of the legislature, the role of the courts, the commitment to science and the independence of the universities. All these were the pillars on which US freedom and prosperity rested. Now, he is destroying the liberal international order. Soon, I presume, Trump will be invading countries, as he proceeds to restore the age of empires.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

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Street Art Sheffield @streetartsheffield.com · 02/04/2025

Another Sheffield mural has caught the attention of @streetartcities.bsky.social. Phlegm's 'Devonshire Cat' has been shortlisted for the best new mural of March 2025. Please vote for it on their website: streetartcities.com/awards/2025-03 @visitsheffield.bsky.social @helpsheffield.bsky.social

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Over the last two decades, Warp Films have won bucketloads of critical acclaim and multiple awards, but their dark, gritty stories have remained cult hits. Their latest, Adolescence, has now been seen by over 100 million people worldwide and is currently top of the Netflix charts in 80 countries.

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Adolescence: How a struggling Sheffield film company made the world’s most watched drama

'We were probably two months away from literally turning the lights off'

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

That’s amazing news Lilian! ❤️ Everyone should consider joining the @dkms-uk.bsky.social stem cell register if they can. It’s simple & easy to do.🙏 dkms.org.uk/Stefanovic

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Request a swab kit to register as a stem cell donor

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Trump: "Tariffs have come in and every country has called us... If we asked most of these countries to do us a favour, they would have said no. Now they'll do anything for us... Tariffs give us great power". This is what really motivates Trump on tariffs - not trade, but corruption & quid pro quo.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 03/04/2025

No, Britain did not get off lightly in the Trump tariffs. And no, it is not much of a vindication of Brexit. Or at the least seeing it is an economic dividend is to conveniently look away from the more substantial economic costs. New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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No, Britain has not escaped lightly from Trump's tariffs

And it is not a very convincing vindication of Brexit.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Beautiful enormous magnolia tree. Kew Gardens earlier today. Fantastic.

Huge magnolia tree in full bloom against blue sky - Kew Gardens

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

curlews are beautiful birds with great big curly bills. they live in marshland and moorland, and sing a lovely little song that sounds like this...

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If you see this, post a bridge. Ponte dei Carmini, Venice, February 2025.

Ponte dei Carmini, Venice at twilight, shops lit up

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is awful news for the FDA and for public health. “The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure Friday and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

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Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

No, Farage is not 'distancing himself from Trump'. Only last week, he was raising funds for him in Florida.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a good and important suggestion - every major dataset housed in the US (which is a *lot* of great data) can be considered under threat right now. One way researchers and institutions elsewhere can help limit the harm is finding ways to mirror host/backup a lot of that data.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 29/03/2025

"The imperialism has no clothes." Terrific piece on JD Vance in Greenland, by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p.... Final paragraph below.

So consider. The US is is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Not bad. But hi Denmark is number two (after Finland). On a scale of 1 to 100, Freedom House ranks Denmark 97 and the US 84 on freedom — and the US will drop a great deal this year. An American is about ten times more likely to be incarcerated than a Dane. Danes have access to universal and essentially free health care; Americans spend a huge amount of money to be sick more often and to be treated worse when they are. Danes on average live four years longer than Americans. In Denmark university education is free; the average balance owed by the tens of millions of Americans who hold student debt in the US is about $40,000. Danish parents share a year of paid parental leave. In the US, one parent might get twelve weeks of unpaid leave. Denmark has children’s story writer Hans Christian Andersen. The US has children’s story writer JD Vance. American children are about twice as likely as Danish children to die before the age of five.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

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Lakeland Days @lakelanddays.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One of our favorite Lake District views while approaching Haystacks in the Western Fells #LakeDistrict #Wainwrights #Cumbria

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 27/03/2025

“This latest development must be a wake up call. It’s time to step away from farmed salmon – as consumers, and as a nation” theferret.scot/salmo...

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Salmon farms file 210 appeals to 'sabotage' lice controls

Salmon farms have lodged 210 appeals against controls on lice infestations imposed by the Scottish Government’s environment watchdog.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Super sea shanty sounds from Waldershelf singers in Upper Chapel for @classicalsheffield.bsky.social festival this evening. Super! #CSCW25

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Great sounds on Orchard Square - Tracks session. Marvellous achievements from some terrific young people! For @classicalsheffield.bsky.social festival weekend. #CSCw25

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tom Daggett smashing it in Sheffield Cathedral organ workshop. Here's Albie playing the organ - four kids and two adults had a go and loved it! A delight to see. Great playing from Tom and James. For @classicalsheffield.bsky.social #CSCW25 Albie's Dad happy for me to share this photo - many thanks.

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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

James playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue to appreciative folk enjoying a close up view. He'll let them have a go when he's done. Sounds magnificent of course! @classicalsheffield.bsky.social #CSCW25

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